PowerChurch Software Newsletter - Year End 2019 Part 1

Welcome to the first of two year-end 2019 newsletters. In this issue, we're highlighting another new feature in Version 12.2, revisiting some year-end greatest hits, and announcing the year-end Maintenance Release round-up for Versions 11.55 and 12.2.

Version 12.2 - Reverse & Correct Contributions

This article has been moved to Version 12.2 - Reverse & Correct Contributions

Year-End Resources Page

In prior years, we published articles and reminders specific to year-end processes and support in these year-end editions of the newsletter. There is now a dedicated page on our website at https://www.powerchurch.com/yearend where you can find links to those articles and other articles pertinent to year-end, such as support traffic and tax filing info.

Versions 11.55 and 12.2 Maintenance Releases

We have published sizeable Maintenance Release updates for both Versions 11.55 and 12.2. These both contain many bug fixes, feature tweaks, and the updated tax forms for 2019 filings. Our "Substitute Black and White" W2 and W3 forms have been approved by the Social Security Administration and the electronic filing standards tests have all been passed.

PowerChurch Online users automatically received the Version 12.2 Maintenance Release. For users of the desktop PowerChurch Plus Versions 11.55 and 12.2, you can subscribe to receive email notifications as soon as new Maintenance Releases are available, manually download the update from under Help > Download Maintenance Release, or just wait for the software to check for updates on its own, which happens every seven days.

Forum Q & A

The Support Forum on our website is a very active online community of our users and Tech Support staff members. There you can browse through thousands of questions and answers, or post your own.

From General:
Q. I want to run PowerChurch on two computers using OneDrive. The only objection I have seen here is that OneDrive is not a good idea because it is "cloud based". The two computers are locally networked. Is there an easier way?
A. Just use one computer as the server and the other as the client. Follow the directions here: https://www.powerchurch.com/networking. Using cloud storage services like OneDrive to share PowerChurch will eventually corrupt the database. The only safe way to use cloud storage is to share PowerChurch's zip file backups.

From Accounting:
Q. I need to void a check but when I go to the option and put in the check number it says that check is not found. However, it is in the list of checks written, just not in numerical order. It is at the top of the page.
A. There may be a space before the beginning of the check number. This could happen if it was a manual check. Try entering a space before the check number to see if that pulls up the check.

From Contributions:
Q. My contribution reports are printing whole dollars instead of dollars.cents. How can I change this? It seems to affect all reports.
A. This is a local Windows setting, found under Regional and Language Options. Change both Currency and Numbers to have two decimal places.